stocky
20
2.8
- adjective
- /ˈstɑːki/
- The man was short and stocky, gray-haired, and wearing a fedora.
- a stocky man
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Watch on YouTubeI don't know doing that was like that white lad, pretty stocky, smallish, pacey good.
- I don't know doing that was like that white lad, pretty stocky, smallish, pacey good.
- It came pretty natural being like kind of a shorter, stockier guy.
- I thought, like being a strong picture of masculinity was him, you know, shorter, stocky, super athletic.
- And I remember the first, first cell that I went in, they put me in with a black guy and he's short stocky.
- The other guy, the stocky guy, he's Millwall and Tammer Hussein's Millwall.
- But I found myself explaining the difference and told this person you need to watch out for stocky flowers.
- If you are a fat stocky Gordo with a large package with a wait a large package.
Examples
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Al-Bukhari was a stocky, slightly plump man in his mid-thirties, his short beard already going gray.
Fiction book (1994) -
The boy's height and stocky, powerful build showed that he was maturing rapidly.
Fiction book (1993) -
And then another guy, big, stocky fellow with a crew cut.
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"I see some new faces here tonight," the short stocky woman continued.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm kind of a stocky guy.
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He's quite a stocky man.
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The older of the two was a stocky man in his early forties.
Fiction book (1991) -
There, to his left, he saw the stocky young woman in shorts, loping towards him, not forty yards away.
Fiction book (1994) -
Myra, dressed expensively and fashionably, sits with Gloucester Hebbing, a stocky businessman in his sixties.
Fiction book (1990) -
He's quite a stocky man with broad shoulders.
Synonyms
80
4.1
Small and tightly packed so it does not take much space
28
1.0
Having a solid wide body or wide arms and legs
26
3.4
Short and thick in shape, with a strong, solid look
15
4.0
A large strong person or animal with big, heavy muscles
11
3.5
A person with a large, solid body and wide shoulders
5
5.0
Short and thick in build, often making a person or animal look clumsy
1
5.9
Being short and low with a thick, sturdy shape
1
4.7
A person or animal who has a short, strong body
Antonyms
How Stocky
Surface Forms
Morphology
stocky = stock (semi-transparent) = stock + y
The form is transparently stock + -y, but the relevant sense of 'stock' (stout trunk/body) is not highly frequent, so learners who know other senses of 'stock' may not infer 'stocky' immediately.
Etymology
The word stocky comes from stock, which once meant a 'stump' or 'tree trunk', plus the ending -y. So to be stocky is to be short and solid, like a strong trunk rather than tall and thin.